ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 265 



Reported occurrence in Nova Scotia. — Dr. Samuel H. 

 Scudder, in his paper on "North American Species of Orphu- 

 lella", in the Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., vol. 

 xxxi, page 184 (July, 1899), says of Orphulella speciosa, "I 

 have before me a series of specimens from Halifax, N. S., 

 Piers; Moosehead Lake, Scudder; Norway, Smith;" etc.; 

 and in his "Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera of U. S. 

 and Canada" (Proc. Davenport Acad, of Sc, viii, 24, 1901), 

 he gives its range as "Nova Scotia to Texas," a statement 

 which has been copied by other writers. I have no recollec- 

 tion whatever of this specimen to which Scudder attaches 

 my name, or when it was taken; although I sent him various 

 specimens from Halifax during 1895. I am absolutely certain 

 that Scudder never reported to me that this species was 

 among those I sent him, and the record must be open to the 

 very greatest doubt. 



Mr. Gooderham informs me that he has never taken or 

 heard of 0. speciosa being taken in Nova Scotia. He has 

 a single specimen collected at St. Anne de Bellevue, 

 Quebec province, and has compared it with ninety-six 

 specimens of Chorthippus curtipennis from Nova Scotia. 

 In all his Nova Scotian specimens the foveolae are present 

 and easily seen from above, so that there can be no doubt 

 that the specimens from this province generally have been 

 correctly determined as C. curtipennis. I have had the 

 same experience in examining many specimens taken by 

 myself about Halifax, and Dr. E. M. Walker confirms our 

 determination of C. curtipennis. 



Taking all the circumstances into consideration, I feel 

 reasonably confident that Scudder made some mistake in 

 his record, and it is merely included here on his authority as 

 before quoted. The occurrence should at least be verified 

 by a new record before fully accepting 0. speciosa as a member 

 of our fauna, and supposed specimens of C. curtipennis should 

 be examined to see if Orphulella is included among them. 



Proc. & Trans. N. S. Inst. .Sci., Vol. XIV. Tran.s. 18. 



